Still and still-setting.



lH. HENDERSON.` STILL AND STILLASETTING. APPLlcAT'loNfHLEn 1uLY9, 41915.

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Patented Febyl II. HENDERSON. STILL AND STILL SETTING. APPLICNTION FILED 11.1LY.9, 1915.

'Patented Feb. 1 5, 1916.

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N. HENDERSON.

' -ST`ILL AND STILL SETTING.

` APPLICATION H150 JULY 9,1915y lno'ntcd Feb. 15,1916;l

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lfrom above through suitable @supH orting,

a citizen of the United States,

Settings,

` nnnnnnrjnnnnnnson, onron'r ARTHUR, rnXAs, assiduon To GULF nnrININe COMPANY, or PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A conronn'rion or Texas.

To fall whom itmag/ concern Be it `known that HERBERT `HnNDnnsoN, residing at Port Arthur, injthecounty of Jederson and State 4of` Texas, have invented certainfnew and useful Improvements in'Stills and Stillcation. v

This inventiin.' relates to stills and still settings; and itcomprises an oil still hung n members and havin a depending rebox orcornbustioncham er the Weight of said` .lire box being. also carried h said support- V Application mea my e, 1915. sriai rm. 38,957.

v body cannot influence the ,of which, the following is a' specil pair the still Without destroying the `Wallsl The irechamber I advantageously make of '60.

ing -members and said fire 'ou comprising,v

varch v.members of meta'l carrying vloclrecl or supported `refractorymaterial,-V said still and said tire box beingsoconstructed and arranged asi-toenable easyrepair of said still or tire box Without disassemblage of the Whole structure; alias more fully hereinl after described and as claimed.`

` `Oil stills as usually constructed are horizontal or vertical, cylindrical metal strlictures, externally fired and generallyot considerable size, the capacity ranging from one hundred to fifteen hundred barrels. A ordinarily operated, they receive a charge of-oil and are 'progressively heated, givin `various cuts or 4fractions of distillate at the STILI. AND s'rrnnsnrrxne.

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still structurally independent. i To this end, I suspend the still body from overhead members, the still serving to support'the tiro box. With this method, of setting, expansion and contraction or bucklin I w Y re chamber While, on the other hand, it is possible to rea series of arch bars of cast iron or other metal, these arch members being connected. at the bottom by yoke-plates; and in YtheseA arch bars I key or otherwise support a lini` ln theaccompanying illustration I have in 'the still ist.'

shown, more'or less diagrammatically, a still- Within the present invention.

, Irl-this showingplete still land setting; Fig. 2

sectional view along line 3-3 of Fig. .2;

various temperatures. Distillation is generally pushed" far enough to leave a thick residue or even a coky mass inthe still; anddthe end temperaturemay be a red h'ea't. At the .end of a' distillation the still is recleaned and recharge"'withV oil `for anotherv operation.

` These alternations of temperature and the factY that carbon is invariably deposited on the `heating surfaces, baking on as a hard buckling 'of the still plates, render it diiiilire box orcombustion chamber arealso the Walls which, support the Weight of. the still.

l In thef'presentinventionlhave.rearranged the stillend its setting so "as #to mafkefthe box and the supporting members :for the coky mass `whichrequires considerable enl orgy to remove and which is apt to cause still body, cult to provide good and permanent settings and to repair the still.l In the ordinary set J0' Figure 1 1s a side elevation ofthe coinf is a' trans- :f

- verse vertical sectional view on'A line 2 2 of Fig. l; Figz is "a verticallongitudinal i ,75 Fig. 4c is a detail perspective view of one of y the supporting arch bara-Fig, 5`is an en-fj' larged detail sectional viewvof aibar, showf I g the pin connection; and'F-ig is a sec-` tion through an end arch bar. l y In the drawings, element l indicates a. cy lindrical still body provided with dome 2 'and v .por outlets 3. This stil'ltogether,Withil spending rebox is hung above the Y V85 its ground through hanger rods .4 which `are adjustably attached at one.. end to the vbridge' member carried by upright. supports or columns set in concretebase 6.

lugs-8 on the still body through the bolt con'-A .neetion shown.1 In addition to carrying the each side of the still and they togetherfwith `l0 are pinned to these` as the bottom 11 comprise the firebox which 'is of inverted. arch-shaped form.V ofthe' At their'l other ends these hanger 'rods are attached to these hang'gers` i also carry the` irebox lwhich is attached directly to the still. The still is `provided with a continu- There'is a series of arch bars 10 on i arch bars l() is olf-such a shape 'as to enable itto carry refractory material which may be 4in the-form of bricks, 4tiles or other suitable fire-resisting elements' When of brick there are advantageously' several layers which are so' arranged that their.' Joints'- break. The arch'bars 1 0 being of thecurved -form permit Ikeying" of the bricks in place' n dependent of the refractory materialfof other archbar.' l.. l v'The bottom orgoke plate .11.` are' 1led=b0dy independently For' the pur i individual.

wither result that any one of the barsmay be removed from'the still body;

osel of independently removing ars I adventageouslyarrarig 'the refractory materlal of i .one :ar-.G11 bei?? with reloriclr9 .tile orrefractorymaterialf When the lining is :if-bricks thejoigits are 'preferably broken asis the case withv the' bricks of the arch bars'f Thel arch .bars aiid`; vyoke plates are bolted. together. through ltheir abutting flanges. As many arch bars and yoke plates as are necessary may used. lf'desired,' when. bricks are used as the refractory.material for the 'arches and' the yoke plates they may be vlaid in several layers, the firstor secondI layer consisting of bricks laid in place flat While the last layer consists of bricks securely bonded together."

front wall carries doors-15 through which still is free vto e'xl'iand,

move m any direction 'without cracking the '7`11ove bricklahri?, `which will move With'the stille oil or gas burner 16 passes. Anyconvenient method of heating may be used. The fire chamber is closed by -Wall 17 which is also of' refractory material, Manhole casings 1 8 and 19 pass through walls 14 and 17. respectively' and afford access to the'interior of thestill. Tar line 2O is provided for emptying the still and V-shaped baille Wall 27 for protecting the tar line.

Within' the lire chamber are bridge Wall 21,hack wall 22 and arch23. Flue'fi'goes to a stack 28.

The top or' the stiil may be jaclceted by a nonconductive"layer of tile and felt or asbestos.

With the described setting in which the still `is hung tromv above and the irebox is hung from t'liestill, clearing'the ground, it

A'will be obvious that since .the only points of 4 support are a iordcd by the hanger rods -yoke plate or plates, 'uniting it with the angle iron 'lug and lower In this operation the loss of brick is slight since the bricks in the arch bar are keyed in and generally'canall be f supporting members,

easy. All that is necessary' in eectiug a 65 small repair to the4 still bottom or the hrehox lis to unbolt a given arch har from the remove the steel .pin

the' arch bar.

removedvwth it. Whatxl claim is 21.1.1111; a Still'and stillsetting, a

ers end eolumns' a 'etillbcdyylianger rods upportiugraid still'hodyjfrom said lbri e mbersfand ahrelg' mgfromeaid still stiH-fanglfstlffsettng, 'a suitably Sllpwrtyd cylindrical 'atill body, a plurality offfarehiba's metal suspended' from each edgar-seein; bottom offsaid crch Sti-ll" :i1-chaud alim and.. settig, a, suitably supported stilly hody-'and depending re 'box forfsaid" stillf'uspendefqi thereof; said '-irefbogi com of metal'archbars 'provided' With/lugs ald lowing adeyerof, arch brick toiloo keyed refractory material for intoeaeh such bar. *4. In a still and V.still supported cylindricaloil still having a lon gitudinal lug on eachfside; 'aljphra'lity of metal'k arch barslpinnedrin each schflug andsuspended therettroxig'afiiottom 'yoke l plate unitingthe ends of the-two series' ort. 10o

arch ba/rs thus-formedanda' lining' of' refractory'" material -for the inverted arch formed by such arch bars andthe bottom .yoke plate.,v having, bridge members, 'a cylindrical oil still suspended Within said framework from said bridge members and an' arch-shapeol lire bor:` inclosing fthe bottom of'said still and supported from,v its sid'es`,'said 'lire-box4 being free to move with the still.

6. A still' and still hanger-:s depending from said supportingmember'sfafsti'll body supported by said hangers anda lire box MI5 supported solely from saidstill body.

7, A still and still; setting .comprising a suitably. supported still'ioody,` aiire box snp ported solely thereby, 'and' means for hang;-` ing the stili vat from the structural steel frame Work, the fire box'is'free from the ground andthe still.

contract, vibrate or BuCkligUQfth'estil does no harm to the/ v furnace 1ivallsor supports. f The iireboxrv being made of a plurality of lseparate units,

esemblageand disassemblage are ready and rrehox hung therefrom, said .tire 'box comprising'. a plu` rality of refrac;to'rymaterial"supportawH structural 'la .steel'ramework comprising hrid .-yQk' vplates uniting thev bemand completing the' 85 from the sides o loing' aplurality settiiig, `suitably 5. In a still and still settiugi, afremework v Aim settingE comprising i..

such an eleyationthat the '120 a vsuitahly 1.25

s @11p D orteil l fraeory lhteriall localized` each "of seid supports, herer'ractory material ofone Support heilig m'lependentfof.the refracto'ry y j frltterstl` of; :mother Stylpperbfand means" for 1 f `removfrbly' still bedy alhtelxihg said ll fsupportsl `to the from and supported solely thereby, said -re box comprising a plurality of refretoiy material supports removably attached 'to the still body `and independently detachable ltherefrom.

In testimony whereof, ax my signavrture.

HERBERT HENDERSON. 

